We are going to promote and discuss ideas, statements, observations
and solutions for five areas that are considered key challenges
by Schloer Consulting Group. The main characteristics are exponential
growth - the primary cause for critical societal and economic crisis.
Five Key
Challenges: Economic-Demographic
Crisis,
Energy, Environment, Food/Water and Overpopulation

Before the event:You are invited to contribute to our Public
Brainstorm!Topic:
Global challenges with exponential growth

During
this evening: Part I One Minute before 12: Understanding The Global Model
Human civilisation has reached the most critical watershed period in
its entire history so far. We refer to this period, 2010 - 2050, as
the Consequence Era. It is the era where we must deal with the consequences
of unresolved inter-society relations, misguided technological development,
hyper-militarization of the world, and a dangerous neglect, to manage
environment and vital resources in a long-term perspective. Given, that
money and monetary instruments have become an artificial resource, especially
in the past 300 years, this consequence also includes the results of
our ill-designed global monetary system. Money all by itself, and how
it is implemented into society, has created a severe scarcity that actually
prevents nearly all natural problems to be solved, but promotes global
conflict in a near fully globalized world. It is therefore especially
important to look at the economic conditions and transitions, in order
to understand the prospect to solve any other hard problems in the future,
arising from the management of resources and production of vital supplies.

The study model was built by Schloer
Consulting Group - SCG in about 4 years of extensive research, extracted
from 10,000s of pages of published research materials, real-time data
sources, and 100s of terabytes of global legacy computer data, provided
by governments, global organizations (UN, World-Bank, IMF, etc.) and
various free data sources provided through universities in the US, UK
and Germany.

Part II & IIISocratic Dialogue
The Socratic Dialogue is an approach that focus on the question: what
is the right question to start with? It is a philosophical method in
the sense that all assumptions we take for granted, can be questioned
and investigated. Unlike most discussions we do not debate, we try to
listen to one another. It means that in any approach, if we listen well,
there can be some important hint for fruitful approaches. To get our
minds out of coagulated, fixed lanes we need connection with other minds.
Socratic Dialogue is the strongest tool to boost real collaborative
thinking and to twist our cultural assumptions into new common moulded
perspectives.

It is a method that avoids abstract ways of thinking; generalized abstract
reasoning could probably be considered as an intellectual phallacy (John
Dewey). Socratic Dialogue starts from concrete person based experiences,
where values, emotions and ideas are all considered important. Every
person embodies the cultural values and assumptions - this is why a
personal experience can deliver general importance.

We will maybe just formulate
the right question, but anyway we will experience how it is to think
as communities.

Humberto Schwab uses this
method to create new strategies for business, for innovative processes
and for general think tanks.

19:15- 19:45Part I: About
global challenges with exponential growthThis evening we are going to promote
and discuss ideas, statements, observations and solutions for five areas
that are considered key challenges by Schloer Consulting Group. The
main characteristics are exponential changes - the primary cause for
critical societal and economic crisis.

Hardy
F. Schloer,
Owner, Schloer Consulting Group - SCG,
Advisory Board of the Club of AmsterdamOne
Minute before 12: Understanding The Global Model

19:45 - 20:10Coffee break with
drinks and snacks.

20:10
- 20:50Part II: Socratic
Dialogue -PanelYour
are invited to share your thoughts, we also invited one expert per topic
and will also present feedback, ideas and solutions that we gathered
through social media, the Club of Amsterdam Journal and the Public
Brainstorm.

20:50
- 21:30Part III: Public
Socratic DialogueWe
are conducting a Socratic Dialogue with everybody attending. Your are
invited to share your thoughts. This session will produce concrete results
- ideas and solutions ... the findings will be made publicly available.

....d)At the
registration desk the evening of the
event - unless we are sold out ........earlier:18:30-19:00

India House Amsterdam

India House Foundation is a cultural non-profit organisation; an initiative
from philanthropist Rajkumar Jagbandhan. India House is an Indian culture
centre situated in the capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam. The centre
has a museum, food court, meeting rooms, and much more. www.indiahouse.org

Felix B Boppfounder & chairman,
Club of Amsterdam

Felix is founder and chairman of the Club of Amsterdam, an independent,
international think-tank that organises regular high-level discussions
on preferred futures. It involves those who are not just talking about
the future - but those who are active participants in shaping the outcome.www.clubofamsterdam.comprovides rich resources about more than 100 topics
from nanotechnology to philosophy.

He has an excellent reputation for putting together high-quality and
high-visibility events  locally and internationally. He organised
more than 450 events, conferences and festivals.

Felix has been a voice promoting streaming media since its early days
in the mid 90s. He made himself a name as a high-profile trend watcher
on a global scale with a close eye on information and communication
technologies [ICT] and the music & entertainment industry. His wide
scope of interests leads him to develop a range of outstanding products
in multimedia & publishing.

His roots are in music and the music industry. He is an accomplished
composer of theatre, ballet and film music and also had a successful
career as a performer.

Oebele BruinsmaFounder & Partner, Synmind
bv

Oebele Bruinsma has a background in behavioural biology. He has worked
both in public, including science, and private organisations. As an
international consultant he is involved in industrial innovation and
the driving processes of decision making underlying it.

He draws his inspiration both from nature and music which he considers
both as ultimate expressions of knowledge management. He lives in the
Netherlands.

Digital technology is rapidly transforming our society, our business
practices and lives. Technology is a driver, but not the real issue.
Adoption by individuals, companies and governments is far more important.
But how can we manage the technology, the adoption process and the effect
on our businesses and private lives, without getting lost in that change?

Kwela is a highly focussed, process-oriented entrepreneur and innovation
specialist with many years of business experience in education, research,
training and project management in the creative industries.

She is bi-lingual in English and German, owns a Masters degree in New
Media Studies and trained in small business innovation at Copenhagen
Business School.

She coaches and trains people and organisations in goal implementation
and dynamic change management techniques.

My own goal is to support inter-disciplinary innovation towards value
based and surprising sustainable futures. I combine a highly analytical
and strategic mind with a passion for team work, people and relationship
buidling.www.portaltoyourdreams.com

Vyjayanthi Iyer

I am Vyjayanthi Iyer, a model, actress, dancer
and choreographer from Mumbai, India. I have been a resident of Amsterdam
for 6 years, and enjoyed every bit of the multicultural, vibrant, free-spirited
life it offers. I have also worked as a customer relationship professional
for over 10 years and experienced rich interactions with people from
different cultures and countries.

I started Bollywood dancing
lessons in Amsterdam for a small group of people I knew, as an experiment
to stay in touch with my artistic side, to move out of my comfort zone,
to learn and grow further as an individual. In the last 2 years, my
passion for dance has expanded into conducting workshops for groups
and companies, fitness classes and for special occasions like bachelor
parties.

Bollywood dancing is lively,
it is fun, exciting and the one thing I have never failed to notice
is the smile it brings to the faces of people who participate in my
workshops. I look forward to taking this endeavour further to exchanging
knowledge about Indian culture and take Bollywood dance moves to more
people in the Netherlands and beyond.www.navras.eu

Arjen
is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Gendo. He studied Science
& Policy at Utrecht University and worked for IBM and Twynstra Gudde
as IT-architect, trainer and IT-strategy advisor. Since late 2001 Arjen
has been self-employed, advising clients on the strategic impact of
new technological developments. He is a certified EDP auditor and information
security specialist. As a much sought-after international speaker on
technology policy issues he gives over 100 keynote talks every year.
Since 2002 he has been involved in formulating public IT-policy in the
area of open standards and opensource for the government and public
sector. Arjen advises senior managers and administrators of companies
and public institutions, members of parliament and the Dutch Cabinet
about the opportunities offered by open standards and opensource software
for the European knowledge economy and society as a whole.

Besides information technology Arjen also works on scenarioplanning
and strategic assesments of emerging technologies sush as bio- and nanotechnology.
With clients he investigates the social, economic and geo-political
impact of science and technology.
Arjen's collumns and article's can be found on his Gendo blog.
Dutch: www.gendo.nl/blog/arjen
English: www.gendo.ch/en/blog/arjen

Andrei Kotov is the Commercial Advisor with Shell's Global LNG Business,
prior to which he was a Business Development Advisor CO2 Shell's Carbon
Capture and Storage Team.

Andrei holds a Masters
of Science in Economics degree from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland,
with an exchange semester at the University of Chicagos Booth
School of Business) and an MBA. He subsequently joined Shell Global
Solutions International as a Contracts Advisor. Andreis career,
both prior to joining Shell and within the Shell Group, has comprised
a variety of postings ranging from mainly operational to purely commercial
across energy industrys entire value chain. In addition to his
experience in the business domain, Andrei is a regular contributor to
major business dailies, including Financial Times and International
Herald Tribune (the international edition of the New York Times) with
commentary topics addressing a broad array of issues of global concern.www.shell.com

Stefan LehnerRecycling Designer, En-Fer

Stefan Lehner (1957) studied Philosophy and Mathematics in Fribourg,
Switzerland.
During these studies, he started to develop chairs and tables based
on a 4-dimensional mathematical structure - hypercube - and won a first
prize in an Art and Design contest in Switzerland in 1986.

Fascinated by industrial scrap objects, he constructed beds, chairs,
benches and lamps under the theme of "Object and Function Recycling".
First prize for a long chair made out of transport chains at Plum'art.

Another approach was made through a publicity project for Chesterfield.
Collecting old cans, he produced 1000 Recycling ashtrays for trendy
locations. These ashtrays were conceived to be stolen.

For Interior projects, he worked with car seats from Porsche and with
airplane benches. Later followed the development of lamps, vases and
racks by giving a second life to defect lamp bulbs and used shoeboxes.

Inspired by "Street Design" in Brazil, he is also working
with PET bottles and drink packaging. He started a collection of amazing
recycling objects from all over the world.
He aims to combine ecological claims, reuse of former functions, comfort
and fashion. His atelier and showroom are now in Utrecht. www.en-fer.com

Aleksandra ParcinskaClub of Amsterdam
Round Table

Passionate about people
and different cultures Aleks enjoys an international life style. Originally
from Poland, she lived in France, Austria, and England before moving
to the Netherlands and the multilingual city of Amsterdam. After a few
years of working as a management consultant, Aleks moved into the cultural
sector. Aleks worked with the Dutch Polish Foundation in Amsterdam and
recently completed a job as a project manager for the research project
on multilingualism in Europe, Language Rich Europe in the
British Council Netherlands. She speaks several languages and contributed
to the Language Rich Europe blog in eight languages.

Jelena PopadicHumanist,
artist, designer, lecturer and visionary

Born in Yugoslavia, growing up in Australia and living in the Netherlands,
I am now working internationally in the fields of Art, Culture, Education
and Entertainment.

At the early age I was active as a writer and performer. After gymnasium
and civil engineering I studied free Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy
in Amsterdam and specialised in the Glass as medium in Art and Design.
In the Netherland I designed in the past for Royal Leerdam Crystal,
the national glass museum in Leerdam. In my work I often combine various
disciplines and materials & techniques. Glass, painting, mix media
projects, theater, opera productions, experimental photography and film
projects. My work stands for innovation, collaboration projects, evolvement
of Art itself. Apart from creating and teaching Arts I collaborate with
people and organisations interested in Art expressions as a healing
method; benefits of Art in the education systems and society in general.
Art is playing an important role in communication and stimulates positive
progression of the human evolution. www.bno.nl/profiel/1535/jelena-Glass
Museum LeerdamCollaboration-Art
projects (poetry, dance, film, glass)

Job Romijn is an innovative mind with an eye for improvement. Not caring
too much about a career or money he leads an interestingly unconventional
life. He helps others with ideas and observations.
Job Romijn is an unconventional innovator with a steep learning curve.
This leads him to interesting observations and results in loads of ideas.
He uses his abilities in brainstorming, testing and improving, with
a current focus on websites.
Job Romijn is Job Romijn.
Job Romijn is quite a nice guy, albeit with some issues. Instead of
solving his issues, he tries to use them and adapts his life accordingly.
His current business is testing the user experience and usability of
websites.
He is a generalist with a broad education: a masters degree in high
voltage engineering, conceptual art and applied creativity.
After brain activity he finds relaxation underwater in freediving.www.bedenker.com

Jan SallDirector, Club of
Amsterdam

Jan Sall is a communication and advertising expert, consultant with
a long experience in initiating and organization events on corporate
and consumer level. Successfully realized projects for TNT, LU-Biscuits
etc.

Hardy F. SchloerOwner,
Schloer Consulting Group - SCG
Advisory Board of the Club of Amsterdam

Hardy F. Schloer is a strong
team builder, entrepreneur, accomplished scientist and visionary theoretical
thinker with extensive people and public relation skills.

For three decades now Schloer
has built successful global technology solutions and practical problem-solving
infrastructures for clients and partners in the Americas, Europe and
Asia. Schloer has extensive hands-on experience in the design and the
conceptualization of successful solutions and complex technology architectures
on global scale. His strong ability to view problems through their complex
layers of context has enabled him to become a highly effective analyst
and 'out-of-the-box' thinking problem solver.

Schloer is founder and
former CEO of RavenPack AG in Germany and RavenPack International in
Spain, a world leader in computational linguistics and real-time financial
applications. Schloer is also the inventor of numerous Information and
Communication Technology patents and of the Quantum Relation Theory,
a breakthrough concept in Artificial Intelligence. The Quantum Relation
Theory has been academically reviewed and discussed.

In 2001 Schloer received
the award of One of 25 Best Technologies of the Future from
NetInvestor in Germany for the invention of his Quantum Relation-based
technology platform, 'RavenSpace'.

Schloer made also important
intellectual contributions to the field of healthcare with his groundbreaking
concept AlphaMedic, a global approach to modern healthcare
that envisions globally standardized, centralized and AI managed patients
record keeping, combined with computer assisted real-time medical diagnostics
and automated clinical trials in a global 24/7 processing approach.
Schloers AlphaMedic concept to healthcare problems has received
a European Grant and has been published and discussed in the press and
online healthcare publications

Schloer has developed a
strong transdisciplinary and intercultural approach to problem-solving
consultancy that is now leading in its field. He is an internationally
acclaimed speaker and is frequently invited to international conferences,
public discussion panels and other global Think Tank events.http://schloerconsulting.com

Humberto Schwab studied
physics and philosophy in the Netherlands. He lives and works in Spain
(in the surrealistic Alt Emporda) and in the Netherlands.

As a practical philosopher
he uses Socratic tools to execute deep dive transformations of business,
by strong collaborative thinking processes, dialogs think tanks and
design-labs. New strategies which includes new services, applications
and products can be the result, starting from a new generating idea.

He organized think tanks
for business (Electrabel, Rabobank) government (municipality of Paris)
and education (Rietveld art academy, Stockholm school of economics);
always bringing to light hidden knowledge and intelligence from within
the organisation.www.humbertoschwab.net

Robert
ShepherdFounder, Eduverse

Robert Shepherd is a graduate
from the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art. He has
been working with electronic media since 1978. His goal is to create
more intuitive integration between abstract/synthetic worlds and the
real world. In Feb 2008 he established The Eduverse Foundation to further
his goals of promoting virtual environments for educational purposes.
The Eduverse has had 3 symposia, initiated the "emocracy"
project and the MEP (which looks to use SimCity as a mobile phone based
educational platform), presented at the ibc, AR+RFID (The Hague), IDIAP
and the Waag Society, acted as virtual educational consultant to surfnet
and kennisnet, been involved with TEDxAmsterdam, The AMI consortium,
FITC Amsterdam, Picnic, FiFi, Cinekid, Appsterdam , ESUG and the Club
of Amsterdam. Robert has also taught virtual world strategies to educators
from various universities in The Netherlands as well as setting up the
University of Maastricht virtual design sim. His client list includes
The ING Bank, IBM, NASA and Microsoft. At present he is working on developing
an educational game event for Amsterdam and a project (together with
STIMED) entitled The Visual Sound System (VSS) to help teach children
to read and play music more intuitively. www.eduverse.org

Maartje van Buuren
Artist

Maartje van Buuren holds a Bachelor of Fine Art and Design in Education
and graduated with honours in Fine Art. Her graduation project with
mold landscapes and furniture was nominated for the Piet Bakker award.
Maartje has worked as a creative therapist and as a teacher. She has
also contributed to several industrial design projects and works as
a freelance graphical designer. Maartje uses images, poetry, sounds
and sculptures in her work to portray her continous search for tension.

"My work is about
attraction and repulsion. Contradictory thought and behaviour. A battle
between extremes, tension, how something unpleasant can also be beautiful
at the same time. It's my window into a world and mind, full of contradiction."

Jeanine van de Wiel (1960) contributed to such different parts of society
as media, science, government and industry. She started her career during
her MSc Biology as a free lance journalist in scientific popular magazines
like Technovisie. During her PhD research project in Toxicology she
designed and executed a new course for Health Sciences students at Radboud
University Nijmegen. Her first governmental advisory role focused on
science based exposure limits of persistent environmental contaminants.
Her second job at the Health Council of the Netherlands had an additional
international diplomatic dimension through participation in EU and OECD
task forces on the safety of novel foods like the genetically modified
soy and corn that was imported to Europe at that time. Also the first
novel functional foods emerged like restructured fats and carbohydrates.
This raised her interest for the promising contribution of functional
food products to public health and she joined the DSM Nutrition Cluster
in 2004. Now she is managing the group responsible for the global compliance
regarding safety and efficacy of functional food ingredients, processing
aids, additives and biocontrol agents needed to improve food security.
www.dsm.com

Andreas van Engelen
Theatre of Eternal Values

High end recording and publishing, Composer of theatrical and corporate
Sonic Identities, Soundscapism and Hymnic music works. Audiowerk, Artist
development and promotion, MI industry patching, VI builders.

Peter C.
van GorselDirector
at House of Denim, Member of the
Advisory Board of the Club of Amsterdam

Peter Charles van Gorsel
was born on 23rd September 1948 in Rotterdam. He has lived in Amsterdam
for the last 30 years. He spent part of his youth in Africa and has
lived in Utrecht, Leiden and London. He is a fluent speaker and writer
in English and German with a passive knowledge of French. His education
is varied to say the least, running form a Dutch High School, Graphic
Design and Art school via the Publishing School and Stanford Master
of Publishing. He has a degree in marketing and communication. He thinks
of himself as always curious, an independent thinker, driven and a goal
orientated strategist and a team player; communicative and innovative
with a broad orientation in media, IT, arts and urban development; interested
in issues dealing with talent development and leadership. After resigning
from his post as Dean of the Faculty of Media, Creation and Information
at the University of Applied Science of Amsterdam in 2012 he went on
as an independent consultant and adviser. Before he became a dean he
has worked in national and international publishing in various positions:
sales, marketing, publishing and business development. He has been on
the board of several organisations and is at present on the board of
the Dutch Public Broadcasting AVRO.
For network go to: www.linkedin.com

Huib Wursten
Senior Partner, ITIM International

Huib
is experienced in translating international and global strategies and
policies into practical consequences for management. He has been working
in this field since 1989 with a variety of Fortune 1000 companies, with
public and private organisations in 85 countries on all continents.
His main clients in the business sector are IBM, 3M, Vodafone, McCain,
Quest, Texaco, ABN AMRO, Nike, and Unilever. Non-profit clients include
the IMF, the European Central Bank, the World Bank, the UN Development
Programme, the Council of Europe, and the Dutch peacekeeping forces.www.itim.org